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my name is marcus lemonis. in the past ten years, i've bought hundreds of failing businesses, turned them around, and i've made millions doing it. i'll write whatever check i need to, even if you won't. if you want people to listen, you put money on the table. i'm gonna give you a check for $500,000. i found six struggling businesses, some weeks away from closure. my plan is to turn them around. for the next week, i'm 100% in charge. >> all right. >> let's go get to work. can't run a business if it's not clean. but i'm not just giving them advice. i'm putting up millions of dollars of my own money. if you don't know your numbers, you just don't know your business. i'll work by their side... i'll put in the hours... 'cause i have the same risk that they do. where's accounting? >> she's counting. >> no, where's accounting? >> um... >> oh, my god. this business is a total mess. i judge businesses based on three things: it's pretty damn good. most often, businesses fail because of people. >> i trusted people to man
my name is marcus lemonis. in the past ten years, i've bought hundreds of failing businesses, turned them around, and i've made millions doing it. i'll write whatever check i need to, even if you won't. if you want people to listen, you put money on the table. i'm gonna give you a check for $500,000. i found six struggling businesses, some weeks away from closure. my plan is to turn them around. for the next week, i'm 100% in charge. >> all right. >> let's go get to work. can't run...
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joining me for our "daily fix," chris cillizza and ruth marcus. so, chris, what do you think is the first topic? probably saying what do you think they're all talking about us today? >> yeah. >> we are. >> golly, andrea. i would kill to be in that room. but my guess is, look, they are two substantive peel who are probably talking -- my guess, maybe middle east policy. that's obviously something that's on the tip of everyone's tongue at the moment. do they talk poll six itics is always wish i knew but i think that's by far the most fascinating component of all of this. there has been a little bit of trickle from the obama campaign to hillary or the ready for hillary effort. i think it will be fascinating to see sort of how that plays itself out in the future. >> ruth marcus, you could think of the middle east or how do deal with vladimir putin. the president now has to decide do we after snowden and after everything that's happened do we do the bilateral talks an how do you deal with putin? there is a lot of foreign policy. egypt. but also what's h
joining me for our "daily fix," chris cillizza and ruth marcus. so, chris, what do you think is the first topic? probably saying what do you think they're all talking about us today? >> yeah. >> we are. >> golly, andrea. i would kill to be in that room. but my guess is, look, they are two substantive peel who are probably talking -- my guess, maybe middle east policy. that's obviously something that's on the tip of everyone's tongue at the moment. do they talk poll...
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>> i agree. >> marcus joins us on set this morning. he's the star of the profit and ceo of camping world. it is great to have you here. >> thank you very much. i'm excited to be here. >> you're the real deal. you're a real businessman. and you're a real investor. and you are taking $2 million of your own money after building your own business and now you're going to try to help other people fix their businesses too. >> not an actor, not a consultant, there is a real $2 million on the line over the course of six episodes. and in most cases what we're trying to do is get small business owners to understand some basic fundamentals. that's probably the biggest challenge. >> these are things you learned yourself. >> things i learned myself. sometimes the hard way through failure. >> you're not even 40 yet? >> 39. >> and camping world, 70 locates? >> 104 -- >> 104. i got old data. you sell how much of the -- >> we sell about 18% of all our holdings in the united states f you looked at an auto nation or another public auto. >> this was starte
>> i agree. >> marcus joins us on set this morning. he's the star of the profit and ceo of camping world. it is great to have you here. >> thank you very much. i'm excited to be here. >> you're the real deal. you're a real businessman. and you're a real investor. and you are taking $2 million of your own money after building your own business and now you're going to try to help other people fix their businesses too. >> not an actor, not a consultant, there is a...
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marcus lemonis. let's send it over to josh lipton with the dow now up ten. >> we are watching sprint here. company did reportedly lose more contract customers than forecast. as for better news, top line best estimates raisines guidanc for the year. they sold 70% of shares to softbank. oppenheimer is out with a note saying restructuring of the network and balance sheet remains on track. they do expect a few more messy quarters. the stock up about 2% right now. kelly, back to you. >> all right. thank you, josh. blockbuster comments from a saudi prince who says north american shale oil is a threat to saudi oil production. what it could mean for the future of middle east policy when we come back. golden opportunity sales event and choose from one of five lexus hybrids that's right for you, including the lexus es and ct hybrids. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection. ♪ a quarter million tweeters musicare tweeting.eamed. and 900 million dollars are changing hands online. that's why the internet needs a n
marcus lemonis. let's send it over to josh lipton with the dow now up ten. >> we are watching sprint here. company did reportedly lose more contract customers than forecast. as for better news, top line best estimates raisines guidanc for the year. they sold 70% of shares to softbank. oppenheimer is out with a note saying restructuring of the network and balance sheet remains on track. they do expect a few more messy quarters. the stock up about 2% right now. kelly, back to you. >>...
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well, you know, glen britain is moving out, rob marcus is moving in as ceo. on the call mr. brit did say, quote, you know, we are going to, our objective is to build value for our shareholders. remember john malone at liberty as we reported along with charter which they own 27% of had been trying to generate enough interest amongst shareholder base of time warner that they would get a deal of some kind or get to a conversation. that hasn't happened and time warner's feeling is you will use our balance sheet to benefit your shareholders, no. would time warner turn around and buy charter? perhaps not at this level. we'll see the consolidation chatter, at this point it doesn't appear to be going there but the stock is up. i want to get to directv, it was not a good quarter and the stock is down 3.4%. why? they did lose 84,000 subs in the u.s. latin america, though, is the key growth component for this company as you take a look at subscribers in the u.s. and churn. let's go to latin as well, because there you'll see what was not expected. 165,000 additions. that was well below.
well, you know, glen britain is moving out, rob marcus is moving in as ceo. on the call mr. brit did say, quote, you know, we are going to, our objective is to build value for our shareholders. remember john malone at liberty as we reported along with charter which they own 27% of had been trying to generate enough interest amongst shareholder base of time warner that they would get a deal of some kind or get to a conversation. that hasn't happened and time warner's feeling is you will use our...